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  1. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Yes, but they're not going to miss payroll, the next crop of people trying to take them down are.
  2. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah I'm gonna take 50k out of my SOFI account and just put it in SPAXX because the return is higher anyway and Fidelity is way safer.
  3. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

  4. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    No, that's how the initial money was made to start doing this.
  5. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Well no, he got extremely lucky during the whole GME thing, before it ever was news, and that part I know is true.
  6. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Okay, I misunderstood spread vs straddle too.
  7. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    But like Ackman said, the alternative is that nobody, and more importantly, no company, ever deposits any money above the cap into any bank that's not deemed "too-big-to-fail", which would basically give a government-sanctioned monopoly to a tiny handful of banks. Should everyone be made 100%...
  8. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    20% of what's reserved in margin for the spread, from what I understand. That is the point at which I start getting lost so maybe it's all bullshit but this guy went from nearly broke, surviving off a shitty dog-walking business to having nearly infinite money and effectively retired in the...
  9. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    The government wouldn't just be handing out money in this case, it's not a bailout. It would just be taking control of the underlying assets to ensure that most depositors can get most of their money back. The management/board/shareholders of the bank would still be SoL.
  10. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Friend of mine (guild leader back during WOTLK) has been doing this with KO stock and making a shitload of money. Making >20% returns every two weeks. Really really insane.
  11. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    It's definitely extremely cyberpunk. With the right tech, you could skip right past the holodeck if this gets iterated on. If you could get an fMRI down to the size of a VR headset, it could probably read various sensorimotor responses and then render and feed you back images based on your...
  12. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

  13. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    Not the same ones, but similar ones.
  14. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    No, did you not even read the username?
  15. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    I think you're missing how this works. It's still extremely impressive but it's merely correlating the brain activity to brain activity that was observed against other similar images were trained. So it knows what a cathedral looks like in the brain scan, from looking at brain scans of people...
  16. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    The joke is that no sane company lets engineers have any authority over people. It's the whole reason they invented titles like Principal Engineer, so they can promote engineers past management salaries without actually making them managers.
  17. Mist

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    I don't think anyone is in charge of anything over at Disney's movie division right now.
  18. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    An engineer can't hold people accountable either.
  19. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

    A computer can neither be accountable nor hold people accountable, so not really. A computer can't annoy me in the same way a PM can. A computer isn't going to call up my VP if a deliverable is late. A computer isn't going to manage client expectations or negotiate between multiple external...
  20. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    @bofa? what about @deeznuts?
  21. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    SOFI might be a good pickup.
  22. Mist

    Keyboards & Mice

    https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059641133 This can replace G Hub, not sure about the rest.
  23. Mist

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    welp.
  24. Mist

    The Fast Food Thread

    Good but inconsistent. CFA is 19 miles from me and the best local KFC is 7 miles from me. CFA sandwich is great every time. KFC sandwich is amazing 10% of the time, great 30% of the time and mediocre the rest. The one I had today was fantastic. The combo is an exceptional deal though...
  25. Mist

    Guild Wars 2

    If you did want to play a meta build, I strongly suggest this one! https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_D/D_Aurashare D/D elementalist is definitely one of the most fun things I've played in an MMO.
  26. Mist

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Mmm chicken.
  27. Mist

    The Fast Food Thread

  28. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Fuck this market.
  29. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    Yes but can it get over 100 FPS in CP2077 with everything maxed?
  30. Mist

    Cities Skylines II

    It actually just broke down into a traffic simulator, the choke point of every system was ultimately traffic. There were also just way too many mods and DLCs that felt mandatory, or DLCs that were pointless, and impossible to tell the difference just by looking at them. The base game felt...
  31. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    It's predictable enough that you can be right more than 60% of the time, which is all you need to make a lot of money.
  32. Mist

    Cities Skylines II

    Complete lack of gameplay footage is not encouraging.
  33. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Just take your free money. The volatility is not insane. It's actually within a fairly narrow range, and almost totally predictable.
  34. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Why would that be better? Right now anyone that's paying attention can make free money buying puts every time the Fed is scheduled to speak.
  35. Mist

    Cheated out of my youth

    Yeah that's what I'm saying lol.
  36. Mist

    Dark and Darker

    Raided for illegal pixels. Only in Korea.
  37. Mist

    Cheated out of my youth

    Yeah, I realize, I live right next door. I probably could have gotten a job for Stonington Public Schools IT a long time ago but I decided to make my life a living hell supporting platforms with 4 and 5 9s availability requirements, for what's probably not that much more money. I should...
  38. Mist

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Video games do cost money to make.
  39. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Who was expecting that? Where is that from? lol
  40. Mist

    MTG thread

    That's Vintage, but you're still otherwise correct. Formats where games are decided on turn 1 or 2 are bad. Even standard where games are decided by turn 4 are pretty stupid. There's a reason I mostly play draft and cube, where you actually get to play real games of magic.